To celebrate its 10th year, Mattiazzi is launching seating by Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic, Foster + Partners and Industrial Facility, who guest art-directed the collections.
For 2019, the Italian furniture brand has worked with Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of London studio Industrial Facility to assemble four separate collections by four esteemed designers and studios.
The collections include chairs and stools and will launch at Milan design week.
Fronda by Industrial Facility is made of pine wood and steel
Hecht and Colin have contributed a chair and low stool made from pine wood and steel called Fronda.
Inspired by contemporary, nomadic culture and the need for a place to store personal items in public places, the sculpted steel seats house storage in their bases in the form of a single wood shelf. The seat with integrated storage is a new typology for Mattiazzi and also the first Mattiazzi chair to use wood for the structure and metal for its seat. When placed side by side, the ash base creates a natural spacer that allows people to sit next to each other comfortably.
The design comes in chair and low stool versions
"The metal seat takes Mattiazzi to a new place ? an experiment that has some of the qualities of those beautiful Japanese copper and cypress washing buckets," said Hecht.
Colin added: "It's a very practical piece for how we might work or eat at a long table, when we also need a place to put something we carry."
Jasper Morrison designed t...